Too late, Matt. I wikied it. *shudder*

Seems that my high school's boys basketball team is playing in the division chapionship game tonight.

billytea! We were talking about you last night, because we were reading about angler fish and the...disturbing...way they mate, and I told The Boy that you probably knew all about it and could recount it in a way that was more humorous and less gruesome.

You mean the whole fusion thing? I think that's awesome! I mean, not that I'm aspiring to it or anything, but still. It's a brilliant response to the dating desert in which they live - if you're lucky enough to find another fish that shares your interests, or species at least, then what you do is you grab hold of that fish, and you don't let go! And then your brain atrophies and you're left as nothing more than a pair of oddly positioned gonads. There's a metaphor in there somewhere. Possibly that motherhood is not for the fainthearted - it takes balls, dammit.

Anyway, it's also worth noting that the females outweigh the males something like 200 to 1. As Wikipedia notes, "[Male anglers] are signifantly smaller than a female angler fish, and have trouble finding food in the deep sea. This necessitates his quickly finding a female anglerfish to prevent his death." So maybe it's really a protection racket. "Nice pair of 'nads you got there. Be a shame if anything were to happen to them."

I suppose it goes without saying that angler fish are among the most monogamous of all animals. Used to be that scientists thought a lot of birds were monogamous - egg care can be beyond the single parent. Turns out that even species that pair for life, however, are generally not faithful. Some, like the fairy wren (gorgeous little bird - here's one I prepared earlier: [link] are incredibly promiscuous. Not so the angler fish, no. Still, I can't quite shake this image of a tiny hapless male, a massive predatory female bearing down on him, desperately squeaking "Pre-nup! Pre-nup!"

Is this a dress to play tennis in?

not sure, I guess it depends on fit

[link]

and now I know about angler fish

not sure I wanted to

I kind of like it, beth. Did she have ruffled pants to go with it?

Remember my whole new car/lots of miles query? Well, we bought a Prius. I feel a bit like 8'm cheating on my OTC Pilot, but the Pilot is a gas hog and I just couldntkeep it up.

You know in the song "Low" by Flo-Rida, how they say "my jeans are full of guac.?" What does that mean? Because my association is with guano, and I don't think that is what they mean.

Ha! There was a jackass outside repeatedly gunning his motorcycle engine, and I just heard a loud backfire and then blessed silence. Sounds like someone played with his shiny surrogate penis a bit too much and broke it.

Happy Birthday Party to Grace and Noah and Happy 20th Birthday to K-Bug!

Suzi, mine is turning 19 on Wednesday and that will also be the first birthday away so feels weird.

We went out tonight and had very yummy (but very bad for us) food. [link]

Well, the top half of the house is clean. I'll do the bottom tomorrow. Mine and lisah's cats are shot and content. I actually made a Target run tonight, so all that's left for tomorrow is the cleaning downstairs, maybe a trip to look for dresses and shoes, final weekend 1.5 mile swim, then cookieswap!

All in all, good weekend. And I have s2 of The Wire in my possession now!